Outsourcing a Division

Assume you are a strategic leader in a large international manufacturing organization. The organization has experienced a significant loss in revenue over the last two years; now you must consider outsourcing a division to another country in order to reduce expenditures and sustain the company for years to come. Given that your role as a strategic leader is to focus on long-term planning, you must ensure that your decision making is effective and will meet the overall organizational goal of sustainment. Thus, address the following:

• Describe the steps you would take in evaluating the decisions to be made in this situation.

• Explore whether or not you would use prescriptive or descriptive decision making.

• Explain your reasoning for the type of decision making you selected.

• Evaluate the critical thinking skills you think are necessary to make this decision.

The focus of this assignment is on the steps that you would take as a leader while going through the decision-making process, rather than the actual decision that you would make.

Assignment Requirements:

• Cite a minimum of four scholarly sources to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to the textbook, three of which should be academic, peer-reviewed sources

• Your assignment should feature a PowerPoint slideshow that includes 9-10 slides, not counting the required title and references slides. If you do not have access to PowerPoint, you may use a program such as Google, SlideRocket, Prezi, or another software application to create your presentation. Embed voice narration in your presentation, or follow the directions above for a written script and submit it separately. Familiarize yourself with the program you choose early in the process.

• Your slides must feature content in the Notes section that elaborates on your bullet points.

Additional Requirements :

• Your presentation should be 9-10 double-spaced slides including introduction and conclusion.

• Remember, you must support your thinking/opinions and prior knowledge with references. Incorporate two scholarly references

• In-text citation used throughout the assignment and APA-formatted reference list.

• Please no plagiarism and sources should not be older than 5 years.

• Include headings organize the content in your work.